Janet Golden
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Retired, mom, historian, political activist, perpetual piano student
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Defend Public Health
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After Marty Makary claimed, with no evidence, that COVID19 vaccines killed children, Defend Public Health published this report on the topic. Now Prasad is making the same claims. These are not “unbiased” people. We don’t trust them & neither should you.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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Scientific evidence shows no link between COVID19 vaccines and child deaths | Defend Public Health
In response to claims by the Trump administration that COVID19 vaccines caused 25 pediatric deaths, Defend Public Health reviewed the scientific evidence from rigorous vaccine safety surveillance syst...
https://www.defendpublichealth.org/resource/scientific-evidence-shows-no-link-between-covid19-vaccines-and-child-deaths
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The Secretary of Defense is a war criminal.
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A brain injury specialist on science denialism and anosognosia (brain injury). Similar presentations, different causes and responses:
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Flying in the Face of Facts: Denialism, Anosognosia, and the Human Brain - Elizabeth Sandel, M.D.
When someone refuses to accept an empirically verifiable reality, they call upon irrational thought processes and behaviors that produce denialism. People sometimes process information to reach conclu...
https://elizabethsandelmd.com/insights/flying-in-the-face-of-facts-denialism-anosognosia-and-the-human-brain/?utm_source=mailpoet&utm_medium=email&utm_source_platform=mailpoet&utm_campaign=the-last-newsletter-total-posts-from-dr-sandel_4
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Whopper of the Week: RFK Jr. Has Plainly Stated His Belief in the Falsehoods of AIDS Denialism | Defend Public Health
In June 2023, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told New York Magazine, "There are much better candidates than HIV for what causes AIDS." This is blatantly false, contradicted by mountains of data and real-world ...
https://www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/whopper-week-rfk-jr-has-plainly-stated-his-belief-falsehoods-aids-denialism
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Janet Golden
Amy Fitzgerald
6 days ago
This is it for me. I'm not interested in whether she's a good writer (she's not) or *why* she's a trainwreck (yes, sketchy older men conditioned this behavior, sure; also she was 31 in 2024) or what she *thought* she was doing ($). This is the actual impact.
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
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newrepublic.com/article/2035...
. A perfect takedown of Nuzzi’s normalization of RFK, Jr from a vaccine historian, who knows the consequences
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Olivia Nuzzi’s Real Victims
More than her fiancé, or fellow female journalists, the public will pay the price for these misdeeds. RFK Jr. will see to that.
https://newrepublic.com/article/203590/olivia-nuzzi-rfk-jr-lizza-vaccines
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“WE WERE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER"
ERADICATING SMALLPOX
https://open.substack.com/pub/andreasankar1/p/we-were-all-in-this-together?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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Ministry of Truth strikes again. Data-derived information can be found here:
www.immunize.ca/resources/89
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Defend Public Health
12 days ago
For this week’s Whopper of the Week, we have a look at RFK Jr.’s appointees to the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices and their ties to the anti-vaccine movement. You can read it below.
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Whopper of the Week: Kennedy's “Unbiased” Vaccine Panel is actually packed with Anti-vaxxers | Defend Public Health
ACIP will meet in December and is considering some major changes to childhood vaccines. In June Secretary Kennedy fired the panel of experts and installed a group of vaccine cynics. To justify this ch...
https://www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/whopper-week-kennedys-unbiased-vaccine-panel-actually-packed-anti-vaxxers
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How to increase HIV deaths through budget cuts:
billypenn.com/2025/11/18/h...
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Funding cuts threaten people in Philly living with HIV
Organizations that provide services like HIV education and living recommendations are being forced to cut programming after funding cuts
https://billypenn.com/2025/11/18/hiv-funding-cuts-vulnerable-populations-education-living/?mc_cid=d0752dc239&mc_eid=ca909b9285
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My cousin had this board game. It did not have squares for “buy a pardon,” “bypass Congress,” or “answer to billionaire donors.” Needs updating.
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? NIH cuts have affected over 74,000 people enrolled in experiments, a new report says
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NIH funding cuts have affected over 74,000 people enrolled in experiments, a new report says
A new report finds over 74,000 people enrolled in experiments have been affected by the National Institutes of Health’s funding cuts.
https://apnews.com/article/nih-funding-cuts-32b9b7bad01457a5412af26e394e3735?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=share <br>NIH
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apnews.com/article/abor...
? South Carolina’s war on women: the most restrictive abortion bill in the US as opponents keep pushing limits.
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South Carolina looks at most restrictive abortion bill in the US as opponents keep pushing limits
A group of South Carolina senators plans to consider a proposal that could introduce the strictest abortion prohibitions and punishments in the nation.
https://apnews.com/article/abortion-strict-restrictions-south-carolina-bill-9032d596637c4d44fe65ced069851cc3?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=share <br>South
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The Quiet Export of American Historical Erasure
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African-American soldiers removed from exhibit at US cemetery in the Netherlands.
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The Quiet Export of American Historical Erasure
Earlier this year, visitors to the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg, noticed something missing. Two panels honoring Black American soldiers who fought and served in World War ...
https://open.substack.com/pub/harpp/p/the-quiet-export-of-american-historical?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=post%20viewer
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I want to live in a country whose leaders and jurists don’t agree to deny food to the hungry, and a lot of other things.
www.reuters.com/world/us/usd...
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https://www.reuters.com/world/us/usda-says-it-is-working-comply-with-court-order-pay-food-aid-benefits-2025-11-07/
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Janet Golden
Defend Public Health
25 days ago
Enjoy this piece by
@gregggonsalves.bsky.social
that was a speech he gave at this years APHA!
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Public Health Was a Place for Warriors Once. It Needs to Be Again.
It's time for us to reconnect with the radical, system-changing spirit that was once at the heart of our field.
https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/public-health-social-movements-trump/
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Whopper of the Week: RFK Jr. Wants to Remove Aluminum from Vaccines and Endanger Americans' Health | Defend Public Health
Aluminum, found naturally in many foods, is sometimes added as a salt in tiny quantities to vaccines as an immune booster. For years, Robert F. Kennedy has said that aluminum-containing vaccines cause...
https://www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/whopper-week-rfk-jr-wants-remove-aluminum-vaccines-and-endanger-americans-health
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@swingleft.bsky.social
@swingleftphl.bsky.social
A heartfelt thank you to everyone who knocked doors, called, donated, wrote letters, week after week, this was your reward. And now we have to do it again, and again, and again!
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Truly Orwellian
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Rewriting women's health: a content analysis of the Trump administration's revisions to womenshealth.gov
In 2025, the Trump administration instituted rapid changes to the data and information available on US government websites. We conducted a content analysis of the website womenshealth.gov between Janu...
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanam/article/PIIS2667-193X(25)00299-6/fulltext
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Janet Golden
Defend Public Health
about 1 month ago
We are urging the Senate to reject the nomination of Casey Means as U.S. Surgeon General. Means is a “health influencer” without discernible qualifications to be Surgeon General & who seems to make most of her living peddling unproven products
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Senate Must Reject Casey Means as Surgeon General, Defend Public Health Says | Defend Public Health
With her confirmation hearing scheduled for this morning, Defend Public Health is urging the Senate to reject the nomination of Casey Means as U.S. Surgeon General. Means is a “health influencer” with...
https://www.defendpublichealth.org/press-release/senate-must-reject-casey-means-surgeon-general-defend-public-health-says
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Janet Golden
Defend Public Health
about 1 month ago
Why ALL HCWs should be vaccinated against Covid--by
@drjudystone.bsky.social
and Dr. Judith Feinberg.
www.statnews.com/2025/10/30/c...
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Health care workers under 65 must be vaccinated against Covid
The vaccination status of health care workers under 65 has profound implications for millions of Americans.
https://www.statnews.com/2025/10/30/covid-vaccine-health-care-workers-under-65/
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Our scary public health environment gets scarier every single day. We have to keep fighting the lies.
abcnews.go.com/US/video/tex...
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Video Texas attorney general sues makers of Tylenol over alleged autism claims
Last month, President Trump claimed that Tylenol use during pregnancy is linked to an increased risk of autism, despite limited evidence to suggest an association.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/video/texas-attorney-general-sues-makers-tylenol-alleged-autism-126941535
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Janet Golden
Students for Science
about 1 month ago
Hey y’all! NEXT THURSDAY, in lieu of our usual SFS general meeting, we will be having an info session for ANY STUDENT interested in science advocacy! High school, undergraduate, and graduate students welcome. ANY SCHOOL, ANY STATE, ANY MAJOR!
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Janet Golden
AFT
about 1 month ago
It's time for Trump & Republicans in Congress to fix healthcare, fund the government, and put working families first.
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Janet Golden
Defend Public Health
about 1 month ago
Whopper of the week! RFK Jr.’s Claims of “Immune Overload” is Nonsense and Ignores How the Immune System Works
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Whopper of the Week: RFK Jr.’s Claims of “Immune Overload” is Nonsense and Ignores How the Immune System Works | Defend Public Health
RFK Jr does not want the CDC to recommend newborns be vaccinated against the Hepatitis B virus (HBV). HBV infection early in life, especially as a baby, puts a person at a high risk of developing a ch...
https://www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/whopper-week-rfk-jrs-claims-immune-overload-nonsense-and-ignores-how-immune-system-works-4
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The People’s House, Undermined
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The People’s House, Undermined
Through past transformations, the White House has remained more than an executive residence. Each renovation was not merely architectural but historical, reflecting the evolving relationship between t...
https://open.substack.com/pub/harpp/p/the-peoples-house-undermined?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=post%20viewer
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Time write to your state elected officials
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#SwingLeft
#NoKings
Listening to Jaime Raskin after arriving at Independence Park
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#SwingLeftPHL
#SwingLeft
#NoKings
. It’s a bring your own Liberty Bell kind of day here with tens of thousands at Independence National Park (closed by Republican government Shutdown)
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No words
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It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s a Chemtrail? New Conspiracy Theory Takes Wing at Kennedy's HHS - KFF Health News
The idea that airplane vapors are toxic to people or that there are ongoing efforts to intentionally change the climate made the social media rounds. Now, it has found advocates at the Department of H...
https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/chemtrails-conspiracy-fringe-theory-maha-kennedy-hhs/
about 2 months ago
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Hundreds of thousands of Pennsylvanians will be unable to purchase health care when the premiums rise---unless the Republicans end the shutdown and subsidize ACA premiums.
whyy.org/articles/pen...
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Pa. approves higher ACA health insurance premiums for 2026, with some ‘shocking’ price hikes
Insurance regulators say Pennie customers will see premiums rise by 21% on average, which factors in the potential loss of federal premium tax credits, or health subsidies.
https://whyy.org/articles/pennsylvania-pennie-insurance-2026-rate-hikes
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Whopper of the Week: RFK Jr. Frightens Parents with False Claims about COVID Vaccine Dangers | Defend Public Health
COVID-19 vaccines are safe for children. But Secretary Kennedy has repeatedly claimed that the vaccines are deadly and should not be given to kids because of their “profound risks”. Kennedy wildly exa...
https://www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/whopper-week-rfk-jr-frightens-parents-false-claims-about-covid-vaccine-dangers
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Growing number of US veterans face arrest over Ice raid protests
Veterans are facing federal charges after protesting Ice sweeps and Trump’s national guard deployments. The justice department claims the veterans were violent
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/13/us-veterans-protest-ice-raids?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
about 2 months ago
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Religious leaders denied request to deliver communion to detainees at Broadview facility
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
. GONNA FINISH THIS HEADLINE—BECAUSE THEY MIGHT SEE WHAT CONDITIONS ARE LIKE INSIDE
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Religious leaders denied request to deliver communion to detainees at Broadview facility
Hundreds of people joined a delegation of Catholic priests and nuns marching to the Broadview detention site to hold communion, but they were turned away with no reason given. A total of 15 protesters...
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/11/broadview-detention-immigration-enforcement-ice-religious-leaders-communion-fence-protests
about 2 months ago
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T. Neil Ku, MD, FSHEA, FIDSA
about 2 months ago
So, this is the new strategy? If it isn't broken, then just break it.
#vaccination
#IDSky
#IPSky
#publichealth
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CDC advisers create new work group to review childhood vaccines
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-vaccines/cdc-advisers-create-new-work-group-review-childhood-vaccines
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Timothy McBride
about 2 months ago
Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials “Disease detectives,” high-ranking scientists, the entire Washington office and the staff of a weekly public health journal were among those who learned late Friday that they would lose their jobs.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...
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Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/us/politics/trump-administration-cdc-layoffs.html?smid=bs-share
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The new scientific method.
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about 2 months ago
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. Scream? Cry? Both?
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Circumcision ‘highly likely’ linked to autism, RFK Jr. says in wild new Tylenol claim
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claimed there may be a link between circumcision and autism — due to the use of Tylenol following the procedure.
https://nypost.com/2025/10/09/us-news/tylenol-used-after-circumcision-highly-likely-linked-to-autism-rfk-jr/
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Florida faces 81% spike in whooping cough cases in 2025 amid vaccine rollback
Florida health officials report a sharp rise in whooping cough cases with outbreaks affecting multiple counties. The DOH is urging residents to get vaccinated.
https://www.tallahassee.com/videos/news/local/state/2025/10/08/florida-faces-spike-in-whooping-cough-cases-vaccine-rollback/86586020007/#
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COMING SOON TO A HOSPITAL NEAR YOU?
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At a Boyle Heights hospital, ICE agents call the shots, doctors say
Doctors say administrator directives allow immigration agents to interfere in medical decisions and compromise medical care.
https://laist.com/news/politics/boyle-heights-hospital-ice-agents-patient-care-privacy-rights
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Defend Public Health
about 2 months ago
It’s Wednesday so it’s time for the Whooper of the week! RFK Jr. is Dead Wrong Babies Won't Get Hepatitis B
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Whopper of the Week: RFK Jr. is Dead Wrong Babies Won't Get Hepatitis B | Defend Public Health
RFK Jr does not want the CDC to recommend newborns be vaccinated against the Hepatitis B virus (HBV). HBV infection early in life, especially as a baby, puts a person at a high risk of developing a ch...
https://www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/whopper-week-rfk-jr-dead-wrong-babies-wont-get-hepatitis-b
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Today I saved a ladybug floundering in a swimming pool. And then I cried because I wanted to be rescuing children from being zip tied by ICE or starved in Gaza or Sudan. We are failing millions of children everywhere.
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Study links greater inequality to structural changes in children’s brains
Researchers say findings show inequality creates toxic environment and reducing it is ‘a public health imperative’
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/sep/30/study-links-greater-inequality-to-structural-changes-in-childrens-brains?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
about 2 months ago
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Janet Golden
Caitlin Ryus MD, MPH
2 months ago
RFK Jr. to the Senate &
@wyden.senate.gov
: “Scientists and doctors are supporting me all across the country…I’ll put my mailbag against your mailbag any day” Let’s prove him wrong Join
@defendpublichealth.bsky.social
's postcard campaign. Stand for truth, not RFK
#VaccineTrust
#PublicHealth
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Help Prove RFK Jr. is Wrong | Defend Public Health
When Senator Wyden stated he’d heard from thousands of doctors and scientists concerned by RFK Jr’s policies, Kennedy responded "I'll put my mailbag against your mailbag any day.” Let's prove Kennedy ...
https://www.defendpublichealth.org/campaign/help-prove-rfk-jr-wrong
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Anyone old enough to remember the Hatch Act
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My Equity Research Is Being Censored. I Knew This Day Was Coming.
www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...
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Opinion | My Equity Research Is Being Censored. I Knew This Day Was Coming.
Ending DEI in public health research and practice is harmful
https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/second-opinions/117739
2 months ago
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Janet Golden
Defend Public Health
2 months ago
👏
@donnagaffney.bsky.social
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@nurseteria.bsky.social
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Donna A. Gaffney and Teri Mills: MAHA is bad for America's health
For months we issued a warning: do not hand the nation’s health to a person who treats evidence like an inconvenience, who lets ideology replace...
https://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/guest-columns/2025/09/30/rfk-hhs-cdc-maha-vaccines-health-gaffney-and-teri-mills/stories/202509250002
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